BusMonitor

class to monitor a control bus graphically with GNUPlot

Inherits from:: Object

This creates a GNUPlot.monitor on the bus, with an update time of 0.05, a data size of 1000, and a skip of 20.
You can also get a BusHistoMonitor directly from a control bus, by calling bus.monitor
See also: GNUPlot
You need to have GNUPlot installed in order to be able to use this class!

Creation / Class Methods

*new(bus,hisSize,skip)

Create a monitor on bus "bus".

hisSize

The amount of points plotted

skip

The amount of points after which to make an update to the plot.

Accessing Instance and Class Variables

start

Start the monitor.

reset

Reset the monitor.

stop

Stop the monitor.

initMonitor

Initialize the monitor. Called upon class initialization, but should also be called if hisSize, skip or dt are changed.

setRange(min,max)

Set the minimum and maximum of the plotting (x) range.

min

default 0

max

default 1

dt

dt_

Set the update time of the monitor (default 0.05).

bus

The bus that is monitored

hisSize

hisSize_

Set the history size.

skip

skip_

Set the amount of points after which to make an update to the plot.

cleanUp

Quit GNUPlot and close the pipe to it.

data

The last data added to the plot.

gnuplot

The instance of GNUPlot.

Example 1

s = Server.local.boot;
b = Bus.control(s,1);
{ Out.kr( b.index, Mix.new( SinOsc.kr( [0.125, 0.25], 0, [0.6,0.4] ) ) )
}.play;
a = BusMonitor.new( b );
a.start;
a.setRange( -1, 1 );
a.stop;
a.cleanUp;

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